Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “It’s been many years now of litigation, fighting to protect this remarkable place, and phew, we’re done. The monument and its expansion, it’s now the law of the land. People should go visit this summer. It’s a beautiful place.”

Legislation will focus on permitting reform, air quality enforcement, additional measures to cut harmful pollution in Colorado

Massive unauthorized coal ash ‘mountain,’ growing for years; PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) granted cryptomining polluter Scrubgrass a 4-year leash: toxic coal ash waste allowed to persist

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Residents are challenging industry’s petrochemicals push into the region, and Earthjustice’s legal strategy has helped them notch an early win.

State provided little time for intervening groups to review key documents before approving settlement

A separate enforcement action announced today penalizes Suncor for repeated air pollution violations

Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today to challenge its authorization of two mineral exploration projects

Conservation groups also file notice of intent to sue Biden administration over violations of the Endangered Species Act

Signal Peak failing to comply with permit requirements to reclaim lands affected by subsidence

A decades-long fight for four imperiled species — and an entire landscape — is nearly complete.

Illegal mining in the Zortman-Landusky Reclamation Area has worsened an environmental justice disaster for the Fort Belknap Indian Community.

Intervention defends Montana DEQ in its challenge to illegal mining at Zortman gold mine

Earthjustice welcomes summer law clerks who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Only students who are currently enrolled in law school are eligible to apply.

Fish and Wildlife Service to list species as threatened following decades of litigation

Kentucky Public Service Commission approves major solar buildout and two of four coal plant retirements, expands customer efficiency programs and denies one of two proposed gas plants

Conservation groups filed a notice of their intent to sue the Biden administration over violations of the Endangered Species Act unless approval of exploration projects in Arizona’s Patagonia Mountains is revoked within 60 days. The groups say the Forest Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to accurately assess the risks the mining projects pose to Mexican spotted owls and Western yellow-billed cuckoos, two of the threatened species that live in the Patagonia Mountains.

OSM must prepare environmental impact statement to determine whether to allow proposed 175-million-ton expansion to proceed